Most of us have had a bad day fishing—the fish aren’t biting, the bait isn’t right, or the weatherman got it all wrong. And we each know what our threshold is for willing to make that one last cast. But what motivates someone who is dependent on fishing to give up trying? This is the…
Author: Steve Midway
Updates to fish reproductive biology
In the Spring of 2011, the American Fisheries Society’s new journal, Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, published a special section on Fisheries Reproductive Biology. Much of the initial work for these articles took place at the Fourth Workshop on Gonadal Histology, held in Spain in 2009. I would like to highlight…
Earliest Fish Hook Found
The day after Thanksgiving 2011, while we were all still stuffed with turkey, Science published an article by O’Conner et al. suggesting that pelagic fish may have been on the dinner table long before we thought. It’s accepted that humans traveled the high seas as long as 50,000 years ago—they would have needed to colonize…
Welcome to The Fisheries Blog!
Hi everyone, and welcome to the opening of The Fisheries Blog. The Fisheries Blog is a website created by three fisheries students and friends who wanted a forum to share short, information-packed articles on topical fisheries themes. Each Monday morning, we’ll be posting one article written by one of our bloggers and these articles will…
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